Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-11
PERSONAL,

MRS. SECRETARY LAMAR will 90 TO Macon
next week to visit her daughter.
NJ, DE LESSEPs is to visit Berlin this week
and round of dinners and receptions in his
honor have already been arranged.
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON has Just CON-
pleted successful concert tour OF France.
and will spend the spring in England.
GEN. CROOK. who has recovered from his
sudden illness in Boston is lecturing on ',The
American Indian" in Massachusetts towns.
CARRIE FBATHERsToNE, a Salvation ARMY
captain, plead guilty to grand larceny in
New Y ork, having stolen $500 worth of Jew
eiry.
GEN. CROOK favors giving Indians the bal
lot because 'thoy know more about our gov
eminent than many emigrants who come
here"
THE two best female violinists in tho couu-
try are NJ ISIS Duke, daughter of Gen. Basil
Duke, OF Kentucky, and Miss Maud Tarleton,
Of 3 Gilmore.
SENATOR EvARTs has leased for three wears
the large manson on sixteenth ami X streets
Washington, which belongs to the widow OF
the late Gen. Hazen.
MINISTER PENDLEToN is said to be very re
! luctant TO return TO Berlin. much prercrrine
to remain in this country In some official ca
pacty, but the call does not come TO him.
SENATOR AND MRS. MORRILL,. OF Vermont.
Will soon start for a trip TO Florida and will
Visit en- route their son. who is engaged in a
very successful business in Briarvllle, Ala.
IT ia whispered among the wel-informed
in Germany that the Emperor W illiam is
about as near his dea h as Il living man can
be, There Is no belief that he can survive the
spring
OBADIAH VINCENT, who lives near Toledo.
Ill.,. IS SAID to be 10 years old. and the fact il
attested by the records of his native town in
Kentucky. He is blind, bent nearly double
by the weight of years, and is a county
charge.
KING OSCAR OF sweden has written a
drama, lie Chateau de Kronburg," which
will shortly be produced at the theatre at
da-Pcstb. IL Is IN one act and founded on
au episode OF the war between sweden aud
Denmark In the seventeenth century.
IL NEVER had any sympathy" said Beecher
years ago. with the Episcopal PRAYER, From
sudden death deliver u.s. When / 90 pray
that may go swiftly, like u falling star: 10 in
shc midst of my usefulness, and not be chained
in some living death, burden 10 myself and
the friends / love-"
on his recent birthday Howells spoke in
glowing terms of MIR. samuel l.. Clemens
Marx Twain, whom he considers not only
the foremost humOrisL OF the country, but a
man of eminent ability in other branches of
literary work. Howells appreciates his con-
temporaries, at any rate.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER has Just started
on n two m0ntns' tr pin the course of which he
Will visit all the principal resorts in Southern
California. lie will accompany q party con-
sisting of Mr.. and Mrs. William V. Lawrence
of Montreal, Mrs. Elizabeth Custer Gen
Clusters widow, and sister OF Mira. Law
renee.
JOSEPH II. BRADLEY, ":he Nestor OF the
Washington bar" Is seriously Ill vt his home
IN Georgetown, DC. He was born in Wash
ingtOn in ls03. For more than nifty wears he
las been member of the District bar and
has long been considered its leader. He
defended John Surratt in one OF the historic
trials Of the country.
Mrs. Henry WOODS grave IL IN Highgato
Cemetory, nuar those of George Eliot, Pa
rtpa Rosa. Frederic Maurice, George Nandcn-
hon, II. Craib Robinson, Alaric 4. Watts,
Lord Lyndhurst and the father, mother. and
little daughter Of Charles Dickens. Near By.
also 10 the tomb of Wombwell, the famous
meaagerie Snowman, surmountcd By n full
cl2ed Zen In marble,